Member of Parliament from India's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Pappu Yadav (L), who is serving a life sentence in New Delhi's Tihar jail on charges of murdering a Communist Party of India-Marxist leader, walks along with RJD Chief and Indian Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav (R) towards parliament house in New Delhi on July 22, 2008. India's embattled coalition government will go into a parliamentary confidence vote with a tiny advantage but the margin is so tight it has no guarantee of surviving, Indian media say. The Congress party-led coalition government requires a simple majority to survive the vote after its left-wing allies withdrew support earlier this month over their opposition to a nuclear energy agreement with the United States. AFP PHOTO/PRAKASH SINGH (Photo credit should read PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/Getty Images)

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Essential HuffPost

Inspite of the Lodha Report indicting two IPL teams for malfeasance, the BCCI council is yet to decide whether to suspend them

At the launch of Skill India, one of Narendra Modi's pet initiatives, the Prime Minister said he hoped to transform India into the 'human resource' hub of the world.

The agitating students at the Film and Television Institute of India were threatened with rustication by the authorities, if they didn't back down.

Haryana Chief Minister, Ram Bilas Sharma on Wednesday, defended the introduction of the Gita in the state's school saying the scripture is not a religious book and that its teachings will be part of the moral education of the students.

Zyma Islam says that Bangladeshi media has the additional onus of taking up activism, and so must also peddle blood and gore.

Main News

According to WikiLeaks, security agencies such as RAW use small, private IT firms to acquire clandestine snooping technology from foreign companies.

Anita Kumari scored an impressive 85% in the MP medical entrance inspite of getting only 15% of the questions right. The deficit was made up by the influence of her father, who was a private secretary to the CM.

The blood-splattered bodies of four assistant constables of Chhattisgarh's auxiliary police were today found on a road in Bastar's restive Bijapur district, some 2km from the spot from where Maoists abducted them on Monday evening.

Pakistan's claim to have shot down an Indian spy drone along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir was immediately denied by the Indian Army.

The confrontation between the government and Ford Foundation seems set to blow over, with the US donor has agreeing in principle to register its Indian arm under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (Fema), 1999.

PepsiCo has said they will not bid for the IPL contract after its term ends in 2017 due to the Justice Lodha verdict.

Off The Front Page

A Boeing Dreamliner flew from Amritsar to Delhi, with its wheels jutting out and former PM Manmohan Singh on board.

A 15-year record of Jharkhand's prison records show that Lalu Prasad Yadav was a 'model VIP' jail-bird.

Scientists in India are upset by Infosys co-founder Narayanmurthy's comments that India hasn't produced a single product or invention that is a global household name.

The Supreme Court shot an existential question to the government asking why a Law Minister needed to be included in the panel for selecting judges.

The Thakurs of Lucknow are an outraged family that specializes in petitions, against everyone from Mulayam Singh Yadav to actor Kamaal Khan.

By virtue of being Sachin Tendulkar's son, Arjun Tendulkar got to bowl against England during net practice at the Ashes.

Opinion

Vivek Deshpande says that the ruckus over the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as FTII Chairman, smacks of elitism.

Abhijith Das says India must have a strong defence ready to counter pressure tactics by the West at the forthcoming WTO talks.

Kanika Datta says that for Modi to be seen as business friendly, he also must address the inefficiencies of the public sector.